Nurse secretly photographs unconscious patient’s penis

A former New York nurse admits she used her smartphone to snap illicit photos of unconscious patients’ body parts has turned in her nursing license, according to The Washington Post.

Kristen Johnson (Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office)

Kristen Johnson was arrested in May – in her scrubs no less – after a nine-month investigation that she snaped a photo of the patient’s genitalia. She then texted it to coworkers at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y.

Police discovered both the photo and the video on the nurse’s laptop. Johnson pleaded guilty in November to the misdemeanor of disseminating an unlawful surveillance photo. She also agreed to give up her nursing license.

“Despite what certain people seem to think, it is a crime in the state of New York to view, broadcast or record images of another person’s intimate body parts, surreptitiously,” Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said in a statement last year, according to the Post-Standard.

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